The Gilded Age was a time of unimaginable wealth.

Captains of industry such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt made piles of money in the second half of the 19th century. And they knew how to spend it, too!

Each mansion had to be showier than the last, with friendly and not so friendly competition to see who could use the most marble and expensive furnishings, even going so far as creating a solid gold toilet seat.

This is the world my heroine, Evangelin...